Did he upset Mayor Lyin’ Vince “The King” Lago? And just like that, Coral Gables City Manager Peter Iglesias is out. Iglesias — the once-fired, then dramatically rehired city manager who became the administrative face of Mayor Vince Lago’s restored political machine — announced suddenly Wednesday that he will resign effective Oct. 2, immediately after […]
The gloves are off in Coral Gables. Actually, the gloves came off months ago. Now they’re using brass knuckles wrapped in public records requests and legal threats. The latest chapter in the increasingly ugly war between Mayor Vince Lago and the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association came this week in the form of […]
Fritz & Franz Bierhaus is once again in mayor’s crosshairs Coral Gables wants the giant FIFA ball on a downtown street. It wants the branding. It wants the prestige of serving as headquarters for the 2026 World Cup operations. It wants the photo ops, the international attention and all the economic sparkle that comes with […]
Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins came into Thursday’s commission meeting ready to sell urgency, crisis and moral responsibility. Instead, she got a very public reminder that being mayor of Miami and actually controlling Miami are two very different things. In what could be seen as a political setback for Higgins just five months into her administration, […]
The South Florida AFL-CIO officially kicked off its “Labor 2026” political campaign Saturday morning with a giant union breakfast in Opa-locka that doubled as both a warning flare about Miami’s affordability crisis and a reminder that organized labor still intends to flex political muscle in South Florida — even in a county where developers often […]
A lot of people think endorsements don’t matter anymore in South Florida politics. And many times they don’t. That’s because plenty of political organizations slap logos on mailers and call it activism. Not SAVE. South Florida’s longest-serving, grassroots LGBTQ+ rights organization has spent more than three decades turning advocacy into actual electoral muscle — on […]
Saturday night on Lincoln Road, I attended the South Beach Film Festival alongside my dear friend Cuba Gooding Jr., the Academy Award-winning actor whose career began on stage before going on to appear in more than 100 films. While much of the area felt unusually quiet, there was still something meaningful happening: local filmmakers, artists, […]
There was a subtle but unmistakable shift in the atmosphere at Miami City Hall on Thursday — one of those insider-government moments that probably meant absolutely nothing to the average resident trying to stop the tree murders (more on that later) but meant everything to the people who live and breathe the building’s political choreography. […]
The ‘Stronger Miami’ movement wants more, faster reform Just one year after Miami commissioners got publicly body-slammed by two courts for trying to award themselves bonus time in office, without going to the voters first, the city is finally putting the long-debated election-year switch on the ballot. In August. On Thursday, the Miami City Commission […]
Lawyer: MDC land giveaway is a Constitutional violation Donald Trump’s proposed presidential library in downtown Miami is now facing its second lawsuit — and this time the plaintiffs are making one thing crystal clear: The library itself is not the problem. It’s the hotel. A group of Miami residents, a student, nearby neighbors and a […]